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Showdown in Desire : the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans
- Title
- Showdown in Desire : the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans / by Orissa Arend.
- Author
- Arend, Orissa.
- Publication
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxxiii, 269 p. : ill., plates; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Violence > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century
- Police-community relations > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century
- Public housing > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century
- Black Panther Party History
- African Americans > Crimes against > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century
- New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.
- Contents
- Panther, the mayor of Desire, and the mayor's special assistant ; Remembering and forgetting: what really happened ; The nuts and bolts of infiltration ; Moving the system ; The kidnapping of Ronald Ailsworth ; A pig or Officer Friendly? ; Just before the shootout ; The shootout ; After the shootout: New Orleanians speak out -- Desire heats up. The rematch ; This time we ain't movin' ; The massacre that almost occurred ; The day after the standoff, revelations in a pig's eye, kinship, and luck ; Double dirty tricks ; The year after: did the Panthers make a difference or were the people tricked as usual? ; Panthers and principles on trial: somebody has to not have fear ; Better off in the penitentiary -- Prisoners and those who love them. The escapees--now known as the Angola Three--and the Panthers: a long-term relationship ; The mayor goes to prison ; Geronimo ji Jaga -- Making sense of it. Where have all the Panthers gone? ; Grits, not guns: the Panther legacy ; And then came Katrina.
- Call Number
- Sc E 09-866
- ISBN
- 9781557288967 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1557288968 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008046794
- OCLC
- 270129942
- Author
- Arend, Orissa.
- Title
- Showdown in Desire : the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans / by Orissa Arend.
- Imprint
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.
- Sudoc No.
- HI.F 3/178-8:S 56/2009 ardocs
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 09-866